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Comment on Door at St Edward’s Parish Church in the Cotswolds, flanked by yew trees by Reader John

Reader John — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:58:23 +0000

I linked to this on Pinterest and it’s incredible how many people love it. I don’t know if they’re clicking through to this posting, but if you’ve seen a spike in traffic, that might be why.

Comment on Dura Europos by Silouan

Silouan — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:47:08 +0000

That photo is online in many places on the Internet, so I’m sure it will be fine for you to reproduce it :-)

I got the image from http://www.pitt.edu/~tokerism/0040/syl/christian.html

More public-domain images at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura-Europos_church

Comment on Luther’s death mask by samuel

samuel — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:50:44 +0000

thats so scary and freaky

Comment on Christ the Conqueror of Hell by Archaios

Archaios — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:34:09 +0000

Christ is risen !

Comment on Dura Europos by Ivan Voser

Ivan Voser — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:10:41 +0000

I would like to ask you for permisson to use the picture that shows the inside of the house church in Dura Europas for a small Christian magazine in German. I will appreciate it if you reply me as soon as possible to let me know.

Best wishes,

Ivan Voser, Thun, Switzerland

Comment on An Interview with Sister Aemiliane by Brian

Brian — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:07:59 +0000

I just returned this evening from visiting Abbess Aemiliane and the sisters at the Entrance of the Theotokos Monastery outside od Washington DC. They are doing a great work there!

Comment on Saint Silouan the Athonite by Maria

Maria — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:44:41 +0000

Saint Silouan please pray for us. May the Lord bless me and my family to be a holy family here on earth that we may serve thee with humbleness in our hearts. Increase our love to our neighbors everyday.

Comment on Saint Silouan the Athonite by Trying to try

Trying to try — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:39:14 +0000

My son is named after you. Please pray for me, though I am undeserving.

Comment on Dominance Displays by Kay

Kay — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:13:21 +0000

….trying to suppress the thought that they have nukes….LOL…
Add the Cowboys cheerleaders, some Chinese cinema colored smoke
effects to this and you’d have A Party To Remember.

Comment on Molinism… ouch. by Kester

Kester — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:12:17 +0000

Funny … I was just thinking about Molinism recently without knowing the name for it. Have you seen “Booth at the End”? Without going into details, I began to wonder if the mysterious man was supposed to be God. He doesn’t make anyone do anything, thus not impinging on their freewill. But by arranging people in a certain way, like dominoes who choose how they’re going to fall, a certain end is achieved. He uses no power whatsoever, but his purposes are achieved all the same.

Comment on Why does God sing? by OldGrampa

OldGrampa — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:42:49 +0000

God surely does sing!
I hear music in all that God has created.

Comment on Ham and Bananas Hollandaise by Marcie

Marcie — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:29:29 +0000

I’m guessing you’re familiar with James Lileks’s book, The Gallery of Regrettable Food. But if you’re not, you should be.

Comment on Ham and Bananas Hollandaise by Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:13:40 +0000

You know it’s lent whe nyou start posting things like this.

Comment on Christ the Conqueror of Hell by Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:46:35 +0000

I look forward to reading that link too!

I broadly understand the evolution of the English terminology. In my Anglican Sunday School upgringing, ‘hell’ seemed to cover both Hades and the state of final judgement – gehenna. And that seems to be representative of the folk-theology of the typical English person of the 20th Century. (It wasn’t until protestant Bible College that I developed a more accurate understanding. Another story.)

My curiosity was whether the interchangeable use in the English above was an artifact introduced by the translator, or whether (s)he was attempting to render dual terminology in the original Russian of Bp Hillarion.

Comment on Christ the Conqueror of Hell by Silouan

Silouan — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:45:29 +0000

I haven't seen it in Russian so I can't say, sorry. I do know that "hell" in English used to be synonymous with hades. In pre-Christian legend, the goddess Hel presided over a realm called Hel or Helheim, where the good and evil continued in the heroic or dishonorable acts they'd done in this life. Very much a parallel of the Greek deity Hades and his own realm – and so not a hard choice for translators looking for an equivalent for hades in Anglo-Saxon. For some time, though, later English speakers have used "hell" as a synonym for gehenna or inferno, which does confuse the issue. In Orthodox terms, "heaven" and "hell" are very different experiences of the same reality. Details: The River of God